Extracurricular Activities Episodes

Information about extracurricular activities that may be part of the college application.
June 14, 2022

What Every Selective School Wants to Find in Your Extracurricular Act…

#092 – On this episode we conclude our two-part conversation about extracurricular activities by focusing on the different activities that can be included in the college application. Although we discuss participation in clubs...

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June 7, 2022

What Every Selective School Wants to Find in Your Extracurricular Act…

#091 – Today, we uncover the admission requirements for Cornell University, focusing deeply on the non-academic factors. For selective universities, high academic achievement is expected and cannot be counted on to differenti...

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May 12, 2022

What Gets Students Accepted to MIT? Here Is What MIT Admission Office…

#088 – Today, we explore the admission criteria at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, better known as MIT. We begin by analyzing admission information about the most recent freshman class, highlighting the admission r...

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June 26, 2021

Strategies to Help Your College Application Stand Out (Part 1). How t…

#052 – With this episode, we begin a series of episodes that will give you non-academic ideas you can put into practice, so that your college application can stand out to the colleges and universities to which you will apply....

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June 19, 2021

High School Sports and Your College Application. A Comparison of Spor…

#051 – The percentage of high school students that receive scholarships to Division I and Division II NCAA teams is surprisingly low. That leaves millions of high school kids without the opportunity to benefit from them each ...

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